Toward Monetary Reform Group at The Hague debates global money
The Group of Ten monetary experts from major nations met in The Hague to discuss a possible supplementary international money unit. France opposes changes, while others hint at caution, arguing current liquidity and the dollar balance may suffice. Prominent voices question the need for new international money and endorse dollar leadership.
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Hague
France
Germany
Italy
Netherlands
Belgium
Group of Ten
U.S
Britain
Canada
Japan
Sweden
Switzerland
Ten
The
Alfred C. Neal
Committee For Economic Development
United States
Neal
Eli Shapiro
Harvard Business School
America
Shapiro
USS
Washington Post
Europe
Russia
Jacques Rueff
Lawmakers split on speed of minimum wage rise
The piece argues Congress should raise the federal minimum wage gradually to avoid inflation and job loss. It compares House proposals to reach $1.60 by 1969 or 1970 with a slower 36 month plan, warning against election year pressure and urging market‑driven timing.
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Nike
Congress
House
Investment club commended on stock list in Spear column
A four year old investment club lists holdings in Arizona Public Service South Puerto Rican Sugar Carter-Wallace Avon Products Sears Roebuck Rayette Faberge and asks for guidance. Reader EM suggests holding Avon Sears and Rayette Faberge while trimming speculative South Puerto Rican Sugar and switching to Borden. Continental Can and Union Carbide splits discussed with advice to hold or buy if aligned with goals.
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Arizona Public Service
Carter-Wallace
Avon Products
Sears, Roebuck Rayette - Faberge
D.C
Plough, Inc
Sears, Roebuck
Rayette- Faberge
Borden Company
Continental Can
Union Carbide
Sizatiar
Spear
Johnson declines California Governors Conference visit
Inside Report notes President Johnson's cancellation of a July Governors Conference trip amid California Democrats' reluctance to fund his President's Club dinner. The move reflects Johnson's weakening standing in 1966 and deteriorating ties with state party leaders as Reagan leads in polls.
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Los Angeles
Johnson
Bill Moyers
Omaha
Des Moines
White House
California
Johns
Democratic Party
Beverly Hills
Bank of America
Democratic National Committee
Treasury
Mr. Johnson
Beverly Hilton
National Party
Edmund G
Pat) Brown
Washington
President's Club
Mr. Johnsson
Marvin Watson
Brown
LBJ
Texas
Joe Albritton
Los Angeles Coliseum
Pat Brown
Ronald Reagan
Birth Room Controversy Over Husband Presence Sparks Debate
A reader questions hospital rules barring husbands from delivery rooms arguing they threaten cleanliness and privacy. The letter cites 19th century lie in practice and urges patient self-reliance while proposing prenatal care guidance and booklets. The piece concludes with a constitutional preamble but centers on hospital sterile environment concerns.
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Star Chamber Proceedings
Michigan
Ontario
Tabor
Commendable Selfishness Urges End to Family Subsidies
A letter from Mellor, Ind notes Hal H. of Gary, a 37 year old steel worker, subsidizes his shiftless brother 90 monthly while his own five children suffer. It argues remittance harms financial independence and urges married men to forsake all kin for their spouse.
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Hal
Hal H
Gary
Crane
Big
Sam
Folklore quiz and answers from William Wade column
Folklore quiz listing common references with answers across ten questions. Topics include Lepidoptera, cruet, pencil cores, Ming Dynasty, snow whiteness, Morse, ibid, ukase, impeachment, and fire safety. Includes the remark about the best people being those a wife knew before marriage.
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Samuel Finley Breese Morse
Andrew Johnson
Dating by computer sparks debate on match quality
A reform-era column questions computerized dating used by colleges especially Date Mate Inc in New York. It argues that matching sixty self rating questions may produce identical partners, risking dull sameness and missing moral worth and diverse compatibility.
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Proubly
New York Area
Date - Mate, Inc
Shipwise by James B Marti overview and nautical terms
A compilation of nautical terms and trivia on ships. It cites lignum vitae bearings and Wake surrender in WWII, lists woods for model ships, defines barratry de murage and flotsam, and notes naval language terms such as barge and gig plus a GOP election note on House seats.
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Roger E. Spea
Agriculture
Freeman Say
Department of Agriculture
Pentagon
Foreign Relations Committee
China
Stovie
Anderson Herald
Newspapers, Inc
Ander
George D. Crittenberger
Warriet W. Toner
Robert E. Jackson
Jane Toner
Scott Charles W. Laughlin
Edwin A Bailey
Associated Press
The _. a.m
Brady's Health Service
United States of America
Ion
Minnnesota
Santa
Claus
Iso Ome
Jeane
William Wade
By Russell Hen
James B. Marti
Wake
Martin
Joan
United States’ Navy
GOP
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